Motivation is one of the many keys to well-being and productivity. It is likely the most important, with regard to productivity, because of it's ability to promote endurance. When we are really motivated about something, we can stay "in the game" for longer periods than if we had no clear sense of purpose. This allows us to easily locate a "leverage point" when we want to be more productive. By increasing our motivation and drive, we'll naturally be more "in the moment" when it comes to our work. We can then explore opportunities and creative ideas that can only be noticed when we are fully embracing whatever it is that we are trying to accomplish. When we feel a lack of motivation, our mindset might be more directed toward what we could be doing than it is on what we are actually doing now. Being open to new directions can be important, but if you know that you want to pursue something anyway, even if you lack interest in it at this point, upping motivation can be the turning point that allows you to innovate and improve on what you are doing.

There are many ways to feel more motivated. One of them is to just find inspiring reasons for you to finish something. This, if they really inspire you, will likely increase your sense of vitality and lead to better productivity. For some people, though, finding truly inspiring reasons can seem difficult at times when we just want to quickly finish something that we lack interest in.

By taking tonic herbs, though, this can turn around without you having to think about it completely differently. They naturally uplift and increase vitality to the extent that being more productive can become almost effortless. You might find yourself doing something that you were avoiding before and finishing it with less effort than you thought it would take. Or, if there a lot of effort needed, you won't be resisting it as much and you might actually have fun doing it.

In particular, Chaga is noted as being a powerful herb for increasing feelings of well-being and motivation. Taking this can potentially increase overall drive and creativity toward various tasks. Many people have found that taking Chaga consistently decreases stress and improves overall vitality and "motivation energy". Author and nutritionist, David Wolfe considers Chaga to be a Jing tonic, which means that it increases the deep inner energy associated with adrenal, kidney, and reproductive power.

Another well-known and prominent Jing tonic is He Shou Wu. This powerful root is known to increase adrenal and kidney function and promote a sense of vitality. By taking this product, which is associated with youthening, a natural sense of well-being often results or at least shines through more profoundly. He Shou Wu is noted to be so powerful that it has been found to radically increase reproductive ability for both men and women. This can be something to take note of, whether or not you are trying to increase this ability.

Schizandra Berry is another tonic herb that can increase motivation and productivity. While it does increase Jing and therefore kidney and adrenal function, it also has a unique alertness producing quality. This, since it does not stimulate in any kind of depleting way like coffee is said to do, allows you to increase alertness and sense of vibrancy without having to feel more tired later on in the day as a result. For staying motivated and alert so that you can feel more "ready" to finish whatever you are working on, Schizandra is a wonderful option.

One of the quickest ways to become more empowered is to let go. By letting go, you regain inner energy that was being held onto tightly and making you feel constricted. In essence, you uncover what you were keeping from yourself. By learning a letting go technique like The Sedona Method, you are able to become more "in the flow" by allowing your suppressed feelings to flow out. This appears to give more room for your energy system to flow, increasing overall health. When you feel more vibrant, empowerment is more natural. In the system of Taoist Tonic Herbalism, there are three treasures that are focused on for vitality and inner contentment. They are Jing, Chi, and Shen. Each of these corresponds to a category of inner energy which can be built or depleted over time, depending on lifestyle and dietary choices. Shen is associated with spirit, while Jing and Chi are associated with inner vitality. Specifically, Jing is associated with the deep reserve of energy that is connected with genetics and reproductive power as well as adrenal health. Chi is more of our inner flow of energy that we use day to day. When you increase these "treasures", you naturally regain a sense of empowerment. Similarly, by letting go and increasing the flow of energy that was once constricted, you also increase overall empowerment. By increasing chi, for example, you naturally have more energy and sense of ability to deal with situations. This is likely the case when letting go, as more energy is allowed to circulate.

Therefore, by choosing to let go via The Sedona Method or another technique that works with you and taking whichever tonic herbs you feel well with, you can begin to radically increase overall empowerment and vitality.

Inspiration is the driving force behind many of the most powerful ideas. It allows us to tap into our greater insight and "feel our way" toward success. Sometimes, though, this quality is lacking in people's lives. They seem to have "run out" of excitement and hope. Luckily, there are many ways to start to turn this around.

First off, inspiration can be fueled by inner contentment and excitement. You can feel more inspired about something just by choosing to focus on a few things that really uplift you and excite you. This can lead you to noticing other things to be excited and hopeful about and eventually allow you to notice new opportunities and ways to innovate. In essence, focus to some extent on whatever "brings up" your state and watch your energy and inspiration increase.

If this is not enough, however, there are other ways that exceed this process. One of the most useful ways to really feel more inspired is to eat certain foods that uplift your overall "feeling state". We all know that chocolate is associated with love and that is typically the type of emotion people feel when they eat it. By eating chocolate, or whatever food uplifts you in a natural way, you can more easily "tune in" to you inner state and find things to be inspired about. Meditation often becomes more easy as well, though it is not necessary to eat certain foods to meditate. Still, chocolate and other foods that invoke feelings of inspiration can actually start to "bring you up" into a higher emotional state that is conducive to feeling more inspired. You'll likely begin to notice more and more inspirational ideas as a result. This creates more and more hope.

With regard to chocolate, the most natural is usually the better. In particular, you should consider raw chocolate or raw cacao products first. Second to that would be high quality dark chocolate.

Other foods that have this ability include Blue Green Algae and Goji berries, for some people. Others include Reishi Mushroom extract and Chaga Mushroom extract. You can even make a drink combining all of them, including raw chocolate powder, to create a powerful uplifting drink. Be sure to add whatever sweetener you like, like raw honey, and a high quality fat source (like raw almond butter or hemp seeds) to make it more full and creamy.

When we start to include foods like this into our diet, feelings of inspiration often increase automatically. Rather than looking for reasons to feel inspired, we just notice them.

With that said, you can still choose to focus on things that uplift you. This can help even if you aren't eating those foods, though it is often easier to do when you are.

In addition to this, just choosing to let go of whatever is "blocking you" from feeling well is a way to naturally allow inspiration to increase. You can use the Sedona Method or EFT for this. They can both be learned for free on YouTube.

Feeling well is very important to health. When we feel well, our outlook is often more health-oriented. This allows us to further our health promoting decisions. When we continuously feel down, however, our will and determination can decrease. This can lead to excessive eating and other unwanted behaviors that can degrade health over-time. This article will show you some ways that you can quickly reverse this trend and start feeling well from the inside out. With this standpoint, staying on track with your health goals becomes much easier. Let's get started.

Our feeling state, to a big degree, can determine our level of will power with any diet or health strategy. We do not need to be feeling down in order to become more vibrant, or lose weight etc. We can start feeling great today, even before we reach our goals. This will likely actually help us to reach them faster.

With regard to feeling well and using that as a mechanism for achieving even better health, we can turn to food. Though food can sometimes be used as a distraction, certain foods can actually aid us in becoming more aware and in tune with reality and increase our focus on things that are productive.

Of all these foods, one of them that seems to have some of the most notable properties is cacao. This is the original name of the nut (called a bean) that chocolate comes from. This, and all high-quality chocolate foods, can be very powerful for offsetting feelings of doubt and apathy. It is a food that can truly promote feelings of vitality and often does this very quickly. With regard to this, raw chocolate or raw cacao contains the highest and purest feel-good attributes of all forms of chocolate. This, however, is a general statement as some forms of raw cacao are not of very high quality and do not react well with certain people. In that case, traditional dark chocolate might actually be a better choice. Still, high quality raw cacao (usually heirloom varieties) that tastes somewhat like dark chocolate without strong or excessive off-tasting flavors (this can be an indication of quality and overall nutrition), is very nutritious and is an incredibly pure and true from of chocolate. This food, when eaten along with a strong motivation to feel well and increase your own health can be a very useful aid. It can inspire dreams and ideas of hope which will encourage you to deal with potential setbacks.

While not wanting to use this article to detail chocolate's nutritional profile, it has an outstanding list of factors which influence our feeling state. Particularly, it contains very high amounts of the mineral magnesium which is often deficient in many people's diets and is a very calming and centering mineral. It also contains PEA, which is known to create feelings of well-being as well as the endorphin anandamide which is also associated with feelings of well-being. Furthermore, chocolate contains MAO inhibitors which increase the amount of time that dopamine and other feel-good neurotransmitters can flow before getting recycled. Beyond that, chocolate might be the highest known source of anti-oxidents out of all commonly eaten foods. This isn't usually directly related to well-being, but stress can result in the increased need for anti-oxidents. Oxidative stress, for some people, might induce overall stress.

Chocolate can be incredible for this purpose, however, if you are just supplementing with foods to feel well without using them to define an empowering direction for yourself, they might only give short term benefits. The key is utilizing them, in part, to increase your sense of empowerment that can be used to further your own success.

Here is a useful equation: Drive + Direction = Destination

In this case, a lack of drive can be remedied by certain foods. Chocolate, for many people, is one of these foods. Use them to increase your overall drive and then regain your direction that you have determined to be correct for yourself. Your drive will help you to stay with it.

Chocolate and other powerful foods or herbs can help to uphold you during perceived setbacks. Where many people give up or faulter after they feel they went offtrack, some decide to find another way back on or change directions to a more useful destination. One of the critical aspects that set these people apart is drive. From a physical and even emotional standpoint, the right foods and herbs can support you in this area and allow you to remain elevated. This elevated, yet clear, standpoint let's you be more observant of potential opportunities. From there, your path becomes illuminated.

Here are some other potentially helpful foods and tonic herbs:

Goji Berries - Benefits the liver, kidney's and adrenals. These are all connected to drive and decisiveness. The goji berry is also known as "the happy berry". This quality can increase your ability to stay hopeful and allowing when encountering setbacks.

Astragalus - Increases overall energy or chi. This has an effect on overall health and vitality. Astragalus is also connected to adrenal health. These qualities can increase motivation and feelings of well-being.

Reishi Mushroom - Increases feelings of well-being. Benefits the liver. Reishi is known to be a powerful immune tonic and promote nervous system and neurological health.

Asparigus Root - Increases feelings of well-being. Known to be a lung tonic. Helpful for releasing stress.

These are just some of the many powerful tonic herbs and foods that can promote overall well-being. Find one's that work well with you.

Whenever we feel like we need more energy, a lot of the time we just want a greater sense of drive and inspiration. If we're inspired and motivated, we can derive energy from almost nothing. When we're not quite as enthused, however, our focus might turn to coffee or other things that might stimulate us to some extent so that we can finish whatever we feel we need to do. Here are some ways to increase our natural feeling state of inspiration and drive so that we can propel ourselves forward while also increasing health.

Tonic Herbs

Tonic herbs are probably the quickest way to increase feelings of drive and ambition, especially in someone who feels "burnt-out". While there are other "thought-based" ways to feel more inspired, this is something you can try without having to necessarily "think your way" to success. They help to naturally bring in more inspired states of energy, which allows you to think more creatively and hopeful, without having to "swim upstream" so much by trying to think differently.

With regard to tonic herbs, many of them can be helpful. This article will focus on a few of them that work in different ways.

Jing Tonics

For drive and ambition, certain Jing tonics can really help. This is because they increase your deep energy reservoir known as Jing. This is essentially the core energy that you are born with but can be depleted through excessive stress. Jing is associated with the adrenals and kidney's as well as the reproductive system. Jing tonics are often known to increase reproductive power, which can be something to take note of.

Jing is very much connected to feelings of being grounded and having willpower. When we have a lot of jing, we feel more able to go out and do what whatever it is that we want to do. For many people, increasing Jing is one of the most powerful steps they can take to reinvigorate themselves.

Chaga Mushroom - Chaga is very powerful for increasing feelings of well-being and overall motivation for many people.

Black Seseme Seed - You can buy these in many supermarkets and in health food stores.

For a more immediate energy that might be somewhat similar to the sensation of coffee or green tea, consider taking Chi Tonics. These do not stimulate or deplete, yet they give a quick sense of having significantly more energy. Chi is basically our inner energy that we use throughout the day.

Two very well-known Chi tonics are Astragalus and Ginseng. Schizandra is also a powerful Chi tonic.

The next step for increasing energy and drive is to learn how to let go via the Sedona Method. This is a very powerful technique that allows you to let go of the emotional energy that might to tiring you. When you do this, you might feel much more energized without even having to take anything for increased energy. It is a powerful way to increase your inner energy naturally. Still, just taking tonic herbs is very powerful and will likely help you to naturally release emotions without trying to.

Some very well-known herbs for helping you to feel elevated above negative emotions, so that they are more easily let go of include Reishi Mushroom, Tulsi, and Asparagus Root. These are all considered to be Shen Herbs, or spirit elevating herbs. Shen is one of the three treasures in Taoist Tonic Herbalism. The other two are Jing and Chi. All three play a powerful role in health and vitality.

Often times, it is easy to fall into the "trap" of feeling unsure about how to perfect an area of our lives. We may feel that, "this time, we have to make it right" which can lead to feelings of insecurity about which action is right. Whenever this occurs, remember that "trying to be perfect" does not necessarily inspire appropriate action steps. Getting into a flow, where you feel more connected to life and your tasks, however, can bring creative solutions and true understanding. Essentially, this suggests that you can choose to get in the flow, rather than staying stuck in obsessive thinking. To do this, you just need to put "one foot forward", and remain open to new innovations that can help you. When we feel very content, however, this is often easier. What if, though, you feel stressed and need to go forward somehow. Here's one way that might be useful.

Remember that all work you ever do is brought about step by step. Having a clear intention can be helpful, but you do not have to feel fine about each and every step before you progress. If something feels insurmountable, consider that you can just begin and put as much focus on each individual aspect as you can. When you work in this meditative way, where each action deserves praise and approval, you begin to see how your little efforts will stack up into a remarkable achievement. During the journey, though, you can feel wonderful. This state of feeling is not just to make it easier and less stressful. It actually helps you to connect to that flow and get more inspired ideas to move forward faster.

One practical way to do this is to choose to do one very small task, actually the smallest aspect of that task. Do whatever it is that you are completely willing to do without resistance. If the first step seems too small, break it down to an even smaller task. Do this until you are willing to take some form of action. After that, give yourself the ability to feel accomplished about that. Then, consider whether there is follow-up task that you can do, even if it is just as small. Give yourself the ability to choose either way on this. If you don't have the "energy" to do this small and seemingly meaningless task, then you can stop for now. Very likely, you'll be willing to see how far you will go doing these extremely small tasks. Eventually, you'll realize that you just got started on something that you were resisting or putting off. This will likely inspire another action, which will propel you to go even farther. You might find yourself "in a flow" where you feel like you're working almost effortlessly on something that seemed so difficult before. You can choose to get into a flow, you just sometimes have to start very small and give yourself the approval to not "make yourself" worry about it. Once you get a significant aspect completed, you'll have your own motivation and momentum to move you forward.

Coconut Oil is known to increase weightloss for many people. It's other effects, for some people, can be even more powerful. This article will detail some of the more subtle empowerment-oriented benefits of coconut oil.

1. Coconut oil is very good for neurological health. As a clean source of saturated fat, it is very good for the brain and nervous system. While saturated fat has gotten negative reviews, especially regarding animal products, high quality saturated fat without toxins can actually improve biological functioning. Coconut Oil is not at all connected to the potentially negative effects of other saturated fat sources. In fact, it can help to reduce cholesterol in people who need it. On the contrary, for people with too low cholesterol that may be suffering from hormone related depression, coconut oil has been found to increase cholesterol to a more appropriate level. Dr. Gabriel Cousens has found this to be true and often suggests coconut oil or coconut butter to patients with this issue. Cholesterol and saturated fat is also needed for myelin sheath regeneration, as that is what it is partly composed of.

2. Coconut oil is a powerful Jing tonic. This means that it nourishes our deep inner energy that is connected to our kidney's and adrenals as well as reproductive function. It's powerful thyroid rejuvinating properties may account for some of this aspect. Coconut oil stimulates the thyroid, which, in turn, increases metabolism leading to weight loss. Coconut oil also has growth factors and other strength inducing qualities. It's medium chain triglycerides, composing much of the fat content, is used very quickly as energy rather than being stored as fat. This gives you more immediate energy and a sense of empowerment. Eating coconut oil, either by itself or mixed into other foods, can promote activity, leading to more exercise due to this energy increasing quality.

3. Coconut oil is a powerful anti-viral, anti-fungal, and anti-bacterial supplement. It naturally increases immunity as well as protects against many microbes that have a lipid coating. Taking coconut oil is a powerful way to increase resiliency against foreign microbes. Sometimes, just increasing immunity brings a natural inner empowerment and sense of vitality.

Here is one of the most direct and easy ways increase physical and spiritual energy within you. Doing this, especially if you've never experimented with tonic herbalism or yoga, can have profound and quick benefits to your state of well-being.

In Taoist Tonic Herbalism, Shen is a prominent energy associated with spirituality. It is one of the Three Threasures. The others are Qi (energy) and Jing (deep energy reserve associated with adrenal and kidney power). When we have a lot of Shen, we can sense a feeling of upliftment even when dealing with stressful situations. It allows us to have greater insight over it, rather than being caught up in our thoughts and negative emotions. One of the most notable Shen Tonics, which increases this energy, is Reishi Mushroom. It has been used for spiritual purposes as well as immunity and other physical benefits for centuries. This is something which increases overall health over time as well as feelings of well-being.

When you take Reishi, you are taking something that increases your ability to rise above feelings of worry and other emotions that often pull us down and keep us feeling less than vibrant. This allows us to naturally increase our ability to be present or "in the moment". Your extra energy can be channeled into whatever you are doing in the moment so that you can fully experience it and feel a sense of deep appreciation and aliveness.

In essence, Reishi is a wonderful tonic for many people and increases our natural ability to allow and release.

Yoga is also something which increases feelings of aliveness and contentment in many people. By practicing it, in whichever way you feel comfortable, you can start to obtain these benefits. The result is a calmer outlook and a greater ability to be "in the moment". This can lead to a sense of energy within you that you can direct your focus toward and be in a state of meditation without the intense will needed to "block out" thoughts. When we practice yoga or anything similar, we can be in a state of natural meditation and connection to life with little effort beyond the physical act of yoga. Eventually, this ability can grow and meditation can become second nature.

Tai Chi and Qi Gong also can help this process, much like Yoga.

When you combine taking Reishi everyday with practicing Yoga, you have a very powerful process for increasing your sense of spirit.

Many times, when we feel stuck or we don't know what to do, we are focusing on what we should do and what we haven't done yet. This sets us up to be very disempowered. To offset this, the key is to find something to do even if it is small and feel completely appreciative of your efforts. In essence, find something to do that you will actually do and put a lot of attention on the fact that you are completing one task, forgetting as much as you can about anything that you did incorrectly or didn't do at all. This will turn into inspiration and eventually momentum which will lead you to achieving what you thought you couldn't. The key is direct action and persistence, all while staying in as high a state as you can.

When you are loving what you are doing, you will naturally find ways to do it better. When you are frustrated, it can lead you to giving up or not doing as well as you want to. Stay in a high state, where you are appreciative and content with small efforts but open do new ideas for bigger steps.

One way to do this is to use it as a meditation experience. Put your attention on a small first step that you are willing to take toward your goal. Feel wonderful about it, however small it is. Leave out all expectations of how this will or will not bring you closer to what you want. Just notice the fact that you are doing SOMETHING. That will eventually take you where you want to go if you keep building on that small step with more small steps until you notice ways to take even more prominent steps in the direction that you want to go in. By doing this, you are being more open to creativity and letting go of resistance to doing whatever it is that you feel you want or need to do.

Let the moment guide you when you don't know what to do. If you feel stuck and want to give up, consider bringing more attention to THIS MOMENT. You might find one small step that you are willing to do. Again, let go of expectations as much as you can and just enjoy the task itself while directing yourself in the direction that you want to do.

For more ease in this transition to a state of inspiration, especially when you feel less than vibrant, there are certain herbs that can help.

Chi tonics are one type of herb that can help greatly. These are tonic herbs which naturally increase chi or energy and vitality. This is the energy that is used everyday to accomplish tasks and deal with stress. By taking Chi Tonics, you will likely have more energy and ability to deal with stress. Jing tonics can also help greatly by promoting adrenal function and inner power, which can sometimes increase motivation. Both Schizandra and Reishi are potent Jing and Chi tonics. We offer very high quality extracts of these herbs on our store page.How have you increased your ability to do tasks and work toward the direction that you want to go?

Noni, the well-known superfood, is actually a powerful aid in dealing with emotional wellbeing. It is found to increase feelings of elation and overall happiness with many people that use it. While Noni has many powerful properties that likely contribute to this, one of them appears to be it's effect on neurotransmitters. Some suggest that Noni actually increases the production of GABA, which is a neurotransmitter connected to feelings of contentment. Others suggest that it might actually have powerful serotonin production qualities. Either way, it appears to have benefits toward one's sense of wellbeing.

This makes Noni an incredible food for occasional low-energy and lack of drive and enthusiasm. It might actually help people with anxiety, though that is not definitive. If it does naturally increase GABA, Noni might actually promote benefits similar to the sense of wellbeing derived from Yoga. Researchers for the Journal of Alternative and Complimentary Medicine found that Yoga appeared to increase levels of GABA, which could account for at least some of the well-being factor associated with Yoga.

Noni also has a high amount of long chain polysaccharides, which are a type of essential sugar (there are 8 known essential sugars including glucose, which is a short chain sugar). This might also account for the increase of overall feeling state that Noni appears to promote. Polysacharides are known to have powerful immmune system qualities as well as nervous system benefits. They are also sources of long term energy. This, likely, would give a noticable increase in wellbeing.

People who have low immune system issues might naturally feel less than energetic, as much of their energy can be diverted to their immune system to defend against microbes etc. By taking a product like Noni, which naturally increases immunity in a way that doesn't over-stimulate someone's immune system, they might have more energy. Noni is known to be one of the most potent products for the immune system, yet is a tonic that can be essentially taken everyday unlike more medicinal herbs like echanacea.

If you choose to try a Noni product, check out NoniLand Noni Powder. It is one of David Wolfe's incredible products that contains all of the powerful aspects of Noni in a dried form. It is essentially Noni fruit that has been fermented, dried and powdered under low-heat conditions. It can be taken in water or put into various smoothies and drinks. David Wolfe recommends, for taste purposes, to mix Noni with citrus juice or lemonaide style drinks.